The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-12-29
what We Mean To Do.

ing to step up higher with the incom-
ing year, or for acknowledging their
short comings during the cycle, now
closing. Leaving out personal mat
ters that are between every individual
and his God, we have only this re-
solve: That during the coming year
we will give every subscriber who
pays us one dollar at least three fold
for his money. We are now in q po-
sition to make such pledge. The
"crushing out" process which some
of our friends, headed by the great
Brattleboro inventor, brought to bear
on us, has resulted in a kind of anti
climax, regular boomerang for those
who tried it on. Instead of being
crushed out of existence, as was fond
ly hoped, the SITTER comes up smil-
ing with new vigor and power to de-
fend the right and denounce the
wrong. Instead Of the old lumber
ing press, which the good man of the
late defunct "dalsy" had to ink by
hand, and the well worn type and
fixtures of year ago, the SITTER
office is now furnished with a fine
new press of modern pattern and
plenty of new type and furniture with
which to print as good looking and
lively paper as is to be found in
New England Or anywhere else-and
we are going to keep right on doing
it too.
Now then, this little plan for WHIP
ing us out having SO signally failed,
and the parties engaged in it being, as
we believe, heartily ashamed of it, as
they ought to be, and it is to their
credit that they are, we have word
to say: So fai as we are concerned,
we are willing to let these old by
cones be by-gones, except in one or
two instances, where the parties have
sinned beyond forgivness. But this
don't mean that we shall stop calling
a spade spade, or cease to expose
and denounce all shams and trickery,
and all low down wire-pulling and
caucus-packing in politics, and es-
peciallv all boss and ring rule. If
anybody expects anything different
from us they don't understand the
way we are built. Another thing, no
man and no set of men, candidates or
otherwise, will boss this paper. That's
the part of the business that we pro-
pose to attend to ourselves without
any help Or partnerships. If anyone
doubts this let him try it on, and he
will be as much surprised and disap-
pointed at the result as the fellows
who went into the "crushing out"
business were.
AS we said before, we now have a
first class set up in tools and mater
ials to run our business-thanks to
the fool-killer who for a time has
kindly spared our "crushing OUT con-
spirators-and we have subscrip-
ton list and advertising patronage
that puts the SITTER on a self-sustaln-
ing basis, for which we also owe
thanks to a considerable extent to the
unfair and unmanly prosecutions of
these same blind conspirators. We
are therefore in position to go ahead
and make first class paper with no
one to modest or make us afraid.
The people have stood by us in our
struggles, as they always do when
the rich and powerful combine to
wrong the weak, and we propose to
stand by them under all circumstan-
ces and on all occasions. And by
the people we mean those who seat
their bread in the sweat of the brow"
and not those few men or monopolies
who have grown rich and insolent by
circumventing and depressing the
many. We shall continue to kick
against the rule Of bosses, rings and
monopolies with all the ability we
have. SO let no one look for any
change in this respect. We do not
claim that the SITTER has always been
right or that we have always been en-
tirely discreet in what we have writ
ten and published, but we do claim
that in all we have done and said we
have meant to be right and outspoken
and honest. We also claim that we
have always stood up manfully for
the class to which we and all our
neighbors belong, and that is the
great toiling class who live by the
honest work of their own hands and
brains. We have got no where else
to stand and have no sympathy else
where, for we have known nothing
but toll all our days. and we crave
no other lot, for only he who works
can truly enjoy. We therefore ex-
pect, and think we have right to
expect, that the plain working people
will stand by us in the future as they
have in the past.
Letters from fhp PpOn1e.